From Pilset, England to Seattle, millions will spend the next few months seeking weekend refuges and basking in the latest tunes and summer heat. We've thrown together a list of five of the hottest ag-related festivals in July.

By the time Chellie Pingree was elected to represent Maine's 1st district in the United States House of Representatives in 2008, she had already amassed more than thirty years of farming experience in the state.

Inspired by permaculture ideas and instigated by the reality of peak oil and global warming, two Brits established the Transition Network in 2005 to help individuals “transition” away from fossil fuel-dependent systems.

Patrick Holden was a naive hippie in the ’70s when he started Bwlchwernen Fawr—now the oldest established organic dairy farm in Wales. Fourty years later, Holden asks the question: How can we be more accountable?